A coincidence? Maybe. When Dubai closed Cop28, Asvis informed us that the sustainable development objectives of the UN Agenda 2030 are a real disaster for Italy.
Between 2010 and 2022, a large part of the Italian regions did not make progress towards the famous 17 goals of the Agenda that will change the world.
The Association for Sustainable Development has condensed the figures of débacle in a Report by Regions. A painting that, despite everything, stimulates us to do things.
Poverty, quality of ecosystems, water resources, institutions, waste management, are the synthesis of one status quo alarming. Except for some positive data in Valle d'Aosta and Tuscany, the rest is pure black.
It's really hard to understand what the Italian representatives in Dubai had to applaud in front of a document that in Italy is pure rhetoric.
It is better to ignore Molise and Basilicata for a hundred reasons, not least the economic inequalities that the government claims to have reduced.
Il point of fall: what do we do for urban regeneration, housing policies, the decarbonisation of transport, air quality, green infrastructure? A control room? An extraordinary commissioner? A new Undersecretary? There are good proposals in the Report.
An extraordinary work plan
“The government must urgently prepare a national acceleration plan capable of significantly improving results” said the president of Asvis Pierluigi Stefanini. A practicable response, a national counterpoint to Qatar's contagious environmentalist tremors. Indeed, why don't we do the Plan by March, in order to influence the preparation of the next Economic and Financial Document? The minister Giancarlo Giorgetti is warned.
In the CNEL room at the presentation of Asvis there were representatives of the Regions and the Minister Raffaele Fitto, PNRR strategist. Will he have called the prime minister? Many regions are administered by the center-right and do not make a good impression. Will Fitto call the Regions to order? What a struggle to defend the honor of the right.
They were further listed in the Report 620 thousand landslides (66% of those detected throughout Europe) while the industrial plants, where our GDP originates, are at risk of a major accident are 970. Is Asvis causing alarmism or should we be worried? Industries not protected by the state from external risks are not frequent.
Around the world the Asvis Report is better hidden, you only have to fear if it is discovered Antonio Guterres ithe head of the UN.
No, he says Enrico Giovannini, director of Asvis, let's get to the point: “Cohesion policy must be reset with the aim of drastically reducing the gaps in the South and achieving clear goals by 2030”. Seven years to spend 8 billion of euros in the Regions and which are now on paper. Does the South remain the mirror of an unequal Italy? Largely yes, and the political reading of the Report overshadows the strength of the presidents of Calabria, Sicily, Basilicata, Sardinia: the territorial centre-right.
Certain comparisons cannot be made at an international level if 60 million citizens live with one socio-economic ballast that doesn't come down. For this reason there is little to applaud at international conventions and much, much homework to do.
